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Fountain Hughes (ca. 1859 – 1957) was an American former slave freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he worked as a laborer for most of his life, moving in 1881 from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland.
Nevertheless, the compelling voices of these individuals transport the listener to a defining period in this country’s history. In this 1949 interview, conducted in Baltimore. Maryland, Mr. Fountain Hughes recounts his memories of slavery times to Hermond Norwood of the Library of Congress.
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Fountain Hughes. Dates Alive: ca. 1860-1957. Family: Granger, Hemings, Hughes. Occupation: Gardener; Driver. Fountain Hughes spent his boyhood in slavery on the Hydraulic Mills property of the Burnley family near Charlottesville.
“We Was Jus’ Turned Out Like a Lot of Cattle”: Fountain Hughes Recalls His Life in Slavery and Freedom, Baltimore, 1944. Fountain Hughes was born a slave in 1848 in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1944 (or 1949) he was interviewed in Baltimore by Hermond Norwood, a representative of the Library of Congress’s Archive of Folk Song. The ...
1. März 2009 · Fountain Hughes reflects on his childhood experiences before and after the end of slavery in Charlottesville, VA. Among other events, Mr. Hughes recollects slave auctions and the hardships endured by freed slaves after the end of the Civil War.
Former slave Fountain Hughes (1848 or 1854–1957) describes his life during the final years of slavery and after Emancipation in an interview conducted by Hermond Norwood, a Library of Congress employee, in Baltimore in 1949.
Fountain Hughes (age 101 at the time of this interview) recalls his younger years when he and his family lived as slaves as well as some good advice on how t...
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